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Replication package for

"Beyond Borders: Does Firm-Level Exposure to State and Local Paid Sick Leave Mandates Lead to Policy Diffusion?"

Daniel Schneider, Harvard University

Kristen Harknett, UC San Francisco

Journal of Policy Analysis & Management

September 2025



This code was run on Stata 18: https://www.stata.com/stata18/

The data included here is an analysis sample drawn from the larger corpus of data collected by The Shift Project. Sample inclusion rules are described in the paper manuscript. For more information on the Shift Project:
https://shift.hks.harvard.edu/

For additional discussion of The Shift Project data collection, methodology, and data validation, see: 
Schneider, D. and K. Harknett. 2019. “What’s to Like? Facebook as a Tool for Survey Data Collection.” 
Sociological Methods & Research. https://doi.org/10.1177/0049124119882477.

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***** data *****

main_analysis_file.dta
	* used for all exhibits except Figures 1 & 2
	* codebook saved as: main_analysis_file_codebook.txt

refusa_psl_by_county.dta
	* used for Figure 2
	* codebook saved as: refusa_psl_by_county_codebook.txt
	


***** code *****

run_all_Stata_exhibits.do: master .do file that runs all exhibit-creating .do files contained in the 
individual_Stata_exhibit_code subfolder
	*line 27 is the only line that must be updated by user

run_all_R_exhibits.R: code that produces Figure 3 + Appendix Figure 1
	*line 37 is the only line that must be updated by user



***** results *****

compiled_exhibits.tex: combines all tables and figures into one PDF

exhibits subfolder: contains individual files for each exhibit

